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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Meaning of "triviality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRIVIALITY

triviality  [ˌtrɪvɪˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRIVIALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Triviality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRIVIALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trivia

The trivia are three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, logic and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates. The word trivia was also used to describe a place where three roads met in Ancient Rome. While the term is now obsolescent, in ancient times, it was appropriated to mean something very new. In the 1960s, nostalgic college students and others began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth. The first known documented labeling of this casual parlor game as "Trivia" was in a Columbia Daily Spectator column published on February 5, 1965. The authors, Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky, then started the first organized trivia contests, described below. Since the 1960s, the plural trivia in particular has widened to include nonessential, specifically detailed knowledge on topics of popular culture.

Definition of triviality in the English dictionary

The definition of triviality in the dictionary is the state or quality of being trivial. Other definition of triviality is something, such as a remark, that is trivial.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRIVIALITY


bestiality
ˌbɛstɪˈælɪtɪ
collegiality
kəˌliːdʒɪˈælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
congeniality
kənˌdʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
conviviality
kənvɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
essentiality
ɪˌsenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
geniality
dʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
ideality
ˌaɪdɪˈælɪtɪ
immateriality
ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
impartiality
ˌɪmpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
joviality
ˌdʒəʊvɪˈælɪtɪ
materiality
məˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
partiality
ˌpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
potentiality
pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ
reality
rɪˈælɪtɪ
spatiality
ˌspeɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ
speciality
ˌspɛʃɪˈælɪtɪ
substantiality
səbˌstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ
territoriality
ˌtɛrɪˌtɔːrɪˈælɪtɪ
unreality
ˌʌnrɪˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRIVIALITY

trivalve
trivalved
trivalvular
Trivandrum
trivet
trivia
trivia game
trivia quiz
trivial
Trivial Pursuit
trivialisation
trivialise
trivialism
trivialist
trivialities
trivialization
trivialize
trivially
trivialness
trivium

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRIVIALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
sexuality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of triviality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRIVIALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «triviality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of triviality

Translation of «triviality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRIVIALITY

Find out the translation of triviality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of triviality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «triviality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平凡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trivialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

triviality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

triviality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفاهة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тривиальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trivialidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষুদ্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

banalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesederhanaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trivialität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

つまらないこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사소한 일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Triviality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính không quan trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அற்பமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्षुद्रपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

abeslik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

banalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

banalność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тривіальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

banalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινοτοπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alledaags
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

triviality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

triviality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of triviality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIVIALITY»

The term «triviality» is regularly used and occupies the 75.643 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIVIALITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about triviality

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5 QUOTES WITH «TRIVIALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word triviality.
1
W. H. Auden
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
2
Quentin Crisp
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
3
Annie Dillard
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
4
Michael Hastings
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
5
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIVIALITY»

Discover the use of triviality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to triviality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Topological Triviality and Versality for Subgroups of A and K
James Damon. Introduction The ideas of singularity theory can often be applied to situations where we wish to analyze germs of mappings and their deformations under an equivalence relation defined by the action of a group of germs of ...
James Damon, 1988
2
Ultimacy and Triviality in Psychotherapy
"In this work, which includes a therapy case study, Keen stresses that pharmacotherapy threatens our access and openness to ultimate issues.
Ernest Keen, 2000
3
Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition
The second notion is that there are two kinds of experience that are equally evil, and hence to be avoided: triviality and discord. But there is a distinction to be made. Discord, which is physical or mental suffering, is simply evil in itself, whenever ...
John B. Cobb, David Ray Griffin, 1976
4
Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism
Suppose that P-triviality, S-triviality, and SF-triviality have been refuted. There might be other triviality theories, however. If so, these can be exploited by the trivialist. The trivialist can argue that even though current triviality theories have been ...
Buechner
5
Real and Complex Singularities: XI International Workshop on ...
With respect to the class of weighted homogeneous map germs, our main results are Theorems2.3and2.6in which we obtain sufficient conditions for the bi- Lipschitz K and bi-Lipschitz C-triviality of families, respectively. These results are given ...
Victor Goryunov, Kevin Houston, Roberta Wik-Atique, 2012
6
Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Testing Under Gaussian Models
Triviality. and. Classical. Asymptotics. 3.4-1. Minimal. Triviality. Let us return to the general minimax hypothesis testing problem Ho : PtVo, # i : PePi. We term the minimax hypothesis testing problem as trivial, if 7 = 7(1,^0, Pi) = 1 (return to ...
Yuri Ingster, I.A. Suslina, 2003
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Proceedings of the 10Th Asian Logic Conference
CM-triviality forbids a point- line- plane incident system. Many generic relational structures are known to be CM-trivial, 10,13 Rosy theories do not necessarily have weak canonical bases, we choose the following definition for CM-triviality.
Toshiyasu Arai, 2010
8
Singularities: Algebraic and analytic aspects
In [13] there are given estimates for the C^-G-triviality, 0 < £ < oo and G = H, C or 1C for families of semi-quasi- homogeneous map germs, in [14] the authors also consider a convenient Newton filtration and gave estimates for the C'-G-triviality ...
Jean-Paul Brasselet
9
AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 7th ...
Makinson [14] has analyzed the triviality result in the case the inference operator is non-monotonic and he has proved that triviality still holds in this case. Rott has suggested that triviality could perhaps be avoided by weakening the Ramsey ...
Associazione italiana per l'intelligenza artificiale. Congress, Floriana Esposito, 2001
10
Triviality
The noun triviality usually refers to a simple technical aspect of some proof or definition.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRIVIALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term triviality is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New Triviality and Gender Focused Insanity….
It seems that out of some 500 million Chinese women, about 40 gals participated in a show-the-world-your-armpit-hair photo contest which attracted media ... «Niagarafallsreporter.com, Jul 15»
2
Richard II review – sparkling tragedy pushed to the verge of triviality
Richard II review – sparkling tragedy pushed to the verge of triviality. 3 / 5 stars. Shakespeare's Globe, London Though full of good things, Simon Godwin's ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
July 24: Deficit? An important triviality – and other letters to the editor
You are right that the question of whether the government is technically in deficit or surplus is trivial – but wrong that it's not important (Why It Just Doesn't Matter ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
SINGER: Seriousness and triviality: Some thoughts
When psychological pioneers Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung first met before World War I, they apparently talked — and of nothing trivial, such as the latest ... «Niagara Gazette, Jul 15»
5
Senator Keane's bike speech shows Seanad triviality at full throttle
Last week, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, the Seanad made a decisive intervention which reminded everyone why we voted against abolishing it in 2013. «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
6
Twelve notes that triumph over triviality
If this is symbolic of anything, it's the triumph of triviality. Today FM's Anton Savage Show spoke to a man from a pornography website about the first adult movie ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
7
Jury complains to judge about triviality of cases
But almost immediately, one jury member raised a unique objection over what they considered was the triviality of the hearings. “I must complain of the ... «Daily Echo, Mar 15»
8
Double triviality: Ashton Kutcher for Wrigley's Extra
It seems like 2015 doesn't bring any fresh ideas to some marketing and advertising specialists. This January we see the same trivial ad scenarios promoting ... «Popsop.com, Jan 15»
9
After 'instant noodle' jibe, DAP's Dyana Sofya points out triviality of …
DAP's Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud said Wanita and Puteri wings of Umno are confined to playing second fiddle in Umno. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaKUALA ... «Malay Mail Online, Nov 14»
10
The Ferguson Farce
While the media long ago moved on, the protests have persisted, entering their late, decadent phase of self-indulgent triviality. Cornel West got arrested last ... «RealClearPolitics, Oct 14»

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